FOURTEEN SUCCESSES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 8

FOURTEEN SUCCESSES

HEWITT'S NOTABLE RECORD

Although L. J. Ellis was responsible for a notable record at the recent meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club, it was by no means the best riding performance at a Riccarton carnival, writes "Argus." Ellis rode eight winners and was placed in seven other races. This was practically a duplication of the record of the late A. H. Eastwood three years ago. Four of Eastwood's wins were secured on Silver Scorn, his other wins being on Fast Passage, Worship, Irish Lancer and Berate. He was also three times second and four times third.

The most successful riding efforts at Riccarton are to the credit of L. H. Hewitt, who in two successive years did better than the two recent performances. In 1905 he had nine wins three seconds, and four thirds. Noctuiform won the New Zealand Cup, Derby and Canterbury Cup, Isolt the Oaks' and Jubilee Cup, Pas Seul the Maiden Plate and Cressy Handicap, Stepdancer the Otaio Plate, and Cuneiform the Electric Plate. A year earlier he came through the four days' racing with figures that are likely to remain \\nbeaten for a long time—fourteen wins one second, and two thirds. His wins were scored on Grand Rapids (New !If ai alV d »,Cu?)' MunJeet (Welcome §r t- atf!);, Martlatl (Canterbury Cup) 1 Nightfall (Derby and Oaks), Machine Gun (Electric Plate and Randolph Handicap), Golden Vein (Avon and Cressy Handicaps), Savoury (Members Handicap), Golden Kni?hr (Maiden Plate), King's Guest (The Shorts), Quarryman (Epsom Handicap), and Delaware (Spring Nursery Handicap). These winners represented only two owners. Grand Rapids, Munjeet, Martian, Nightfall, Machine Gun, Savoury, Golden Knight, and Delaware carried the colours of the late.Mr. G. G. Stead; and Golden Vein King s Guest, and Quarryman were raced by the late Sir George Clifford The mercurial Hewitt was a great rider, for whom most horses would do their best. Hewitt, now a successful trainer in India, paid a visit to New Zealand a few months ago

The operation for respiratory trouble performed upon Pasha a few months ago appears to have been very successful. Although he was only fourth in the Cambridge Handicap at the Waikato Meeting last Saturday, he demonstrated that he is not far away from form, and with the improvement he is making in condition each week it may not be long before he returns to the I winning list. By Rampion from Turkish Holiday, he was a very smart two-year-old, performing with a good deal of success in Australia. He is owned by Mrs. M. Gearing, of Sydney, and is at present being trained at Ellerslie by the hurdle jockey D. J. Burgess